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Greener Futures and Recycling Plastic

August 13, 2012 5:15 AM0 comments
Greener Futures and Recycling Plastic

The amount of waste produced in the UK is declining and the amount we recycle, increasing.  Since 2003/2004 total waste generated per household has declined to 1036kg per year, and yet only 39% of this waste was recycled with 47% being sent to landfill, according to DEFRA.  Although UK attitudes [...]

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Waste Not, Want Not – Tales From the Unexpected World of Global Recycling

May 7, 2012 2:30 PM1 comment
Waste Not, Want Not – Tales From the Unexpected World of Global Recycling

Kings Canyon Range in central Australia is kind of near Ayres Rock. It’s actually 323 km from Alice Springs, but this is considered “neighbouring” in this vast desert. In 1994 when I was there, there were no hotels, no motorway services and no supermarkets. You carried your petrol with you [...]

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